diff --git a/dev-db/cppdb/metadata.xml b/dev-db/cppdb/metadata.xml
index 726cdb5c0b9d2..b4e4319275024 100644
--- a/dev-db/cppdb/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-db/cppdb/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>jauhien@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Jauhien Piatlicki</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<use>
 		<flag name="mysql_internal">Don't build a separate mysql loadable module but rather build it into the cppdb library itself</flag>
 		<flag name="odbc_internal">Don't build a separate postgresql loadable module but rather build it into the cppdb library itself</flag>